The English School of Seville was founded by the Jesuit Robert Persons in 1592 and dedicated to St. Gregory the Great, the Apostle of England. Also called Colegio de San Gregorio, it was active between 1592 and 1767.
It was a Catholic seminary for English, Scots, Welsh and Irish persecuted for their anti-Protestant religious ideas as a result of the separation of the Church of England with Henry VIII. In Spain were founded those of Valladolid, Seville and Madrid; in France that of Douai; in Italy that of Rome; in Belgium that of Leuven. A large part of the students of these seminaries were educated with the purpose of returning to the English mission, that is to say, to return to England with the purpose of obtaining its conversion to the catholicism. Once there many were imprisoned for defrauding proselytizing works of Catholicism, for exercising priests and confessors or for alleged work of espionage and conspiracy. Bibliography
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